visual artist born in 1993 lives and works between Bordeaux and Hautes-Pyrénées, France N ° SIREN : 849 361 183 00015 APE : 9003 A
Biography
Gilles Sage (born in 1993) is a visual artist who lives and works between Bordeaux and the Hautes-Pyrénées. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, from which he graduated in 2017. Through his writing, he delicately and playfully examines his relationship with the world and others, often infused with a "light fatalism". He works with autofiction to tell his everyday life, often in fragmentary form, to give substance to the "inframince" (very subtle details) and significance to non-events. He also writes journals that narrate daily life, sometimes real, sometimes fictional. These writings take form in self-publishing and like scripts, come to life during readings or performances. Gilles Sage employs various media to align a best with his perceptions. His photographs, integrated into graphic design works or prints, document the layering of time and invite contemplation. Through various operations like zooming, miniaturizing, juxtaposing, subtracting, or even distorting, recurring motifs emerge, both on the page and in physical space. These motifs are articulated through elementary forms that the artist favors. Since 2017, Gilles Sage has intermittently relocated his studio to the Pyrenees for several weeks each year. Subtly, the mountains have influenced his artistic exploration. As an experienced hiker, he extracts sensations and various materials from the mountains that later fuel his work when he is no longer wandering across the mountain. His ceramics deconstruct and then reassemble a digitized mountain landscape that has been altered by glitches. He also practices video, installation, and in situ interventions. During the summer of 2022, he solo-crossed the Pyrenees from east to west and documented his journey in the form of a series of postcards, compiled into a book-like format titled Postcards From the Edge.
2024 • Diffractis au jardin #12, 45 rue de Lavaud, Bordeaux (France), curators: Diffractis, 6, 7, 8 September 2024 Also see: Diffractis au jardin #12
• Diffractis au jardin #11, 27 rue Brizard, 27 rue Sullivan, Bordeaux (France), curators: Diffractis, 31 May, 1- 2 June 2024 Also see: Diffractis au jardin #11 Also see: Press book • Nouvelles acquisition 2023, les arts au mur, Médiathèque Jacques Ellul, 21, rue de Camponac, Pessac (France), 3 February - 2 March 2024, vernissage 3 February 2024 Also see: Les arts au mur / Nouvelles acquisitions 2023,
2020 • Les oranges de l’aube, EBABX, École des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux, 7 rue des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux (France), curator : AAA, association des ALUMNI et amis de l’ebabx, 3, 4 April 2020 Also see: BAC / "Les oranges de l'aube"
2016 • Vision, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (75), directed by Jean-Philippe Halgand and Pierre-Lin Renié, 13 —18 April 2016
2015 • The Man Who Sold The World, Fête du Fleuve, Bordeaux (33), directed by Jean-Philippe Halgand, Marie Legros, Jean-Charles Zébo, and Hélène Soulier, 22 —31 May 2015
• Between you and me, Café pompier, Bordeaux (33), directed by Marie Legros, Jean-Philippe Halgand and Serge Provost, 6 May 2015
Performance
2024 • Un col de chemise bleue, Diffractis au jardin #12, 45 rue de Lavaud, Bordeaux (33), commissaire d’exposition : Diffractis, 6, 7, 8 September 2024 Also see: Diffractis au jardin #12
• Un col de chemise bleue, Diffractis au jardin #11, 27 rue Brizard, Bordeaux (33), commissaire d’exposition : Diffractis, 31 mai, 1 - 2 juin 2024 Also see: Diffractis au jardin #11 Also see: Press book
2020 • Un col de chemise bleue, EBABX, École des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux, 7 rue des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux (France), curator : AAA, association des ALUMNI et amis de l’ebabx, 3, 4 April 2020 Also see: BAC / Un col de chemise bleue
• Un col de chemise bleue, Voir un peu plus à travers les fissures des murailles #4 periodical lauching, Café des Douves, Bordeaux (France), curator : Jean Calens, 20 June 2019
2018 • Un col de chemise bleue, Diffractis au jardin #3, 27 rue Brizard, Bordeaux (France), curator : Diffractis, 30 June, 1 July 2018 Also see: Diffractis / Diffractis au jardin #3
2017 • Un col de chemise bleue, Rencontres 2, Les Vivres de l’Art, Bordeaux (France), curator : Curieux Cocktail, 29 August 2017 Also see : Facebook / Curieux Coktail
• Un col de chemise bleue, Baleapop, Saint-Jean-de-Luz (France), curators : Cécile Cano and Audrey Teichmann, 26, 27 August 2017
• Un col de chemise bleue (English version), Weissensee (Weissensee Art School), Berlin, Germany, 5 May 2017
2015 • En méduses, with Nicolas Legros, The Man Who Sold The World, Fête du Fleuve, Bordeaux (France), curators: Jean-Philippe Halgand, Marie Legros, Jean-Charles Zébo, and Hélène Soulier, 22 —31 May 2015
Workshop
2017 • Weissensee (École d’art Weissensee), Berlin, Allemagne, directed by Jean Calens, Knut Ebeling, Barbara Junge, Wim Westerveld, 2 —5 May 2017
• Beau Geste Press, CAPC, Bordeaux (33), directed by Lisa Robertson, Benjamin Thorel, Clara Schulmann, Pierre-Lin Renié, 7 —10 March 2017
2017 • Rebel Heart Tour Journal, publication (20 copies over two prints run), EBABX (Master’s degree essay. Directed by Jean-Philippe Halgand, École d’Enseignement Supérieur d’Art de Bordeaux, DNSEP 2017)